impatient - Story 70950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was too quiet. The silence was oppressive. He had found the book, a story about him, neatly tucked away on her bedside table. He longed to read the rest, but she’d be home from work soon. He glanced at the front door and wanted to rip the covers off the book.

He tried to distract himself, but nothing worked. His thoughts raced, a whirlwind of speculation and anxiety. He paced, unable to settle. Time seemed to stretch and warp.

He could not remain still. He reached for the book.

Emotion: impatient

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.33 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion impatient. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 impatient stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the impatient emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the impatient vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.527
`impatiently`	0.434
`impatient`	0.413
`S`	0.396
`impatience`	0.351

Suppressed:

`な`	-0.298
`s`	-0.298
`newfound`	-0.272
`께서`	-0.265
`заслу`	-0.264